"Oriana Fallaci's seminal speech (from her 2002 Panorama article of the same title) about European anti-semitism and the unholy alliance between the left and the Islamonazis.
Special thanks to DANIELApuntoEbasta, who uploaded the original video, to whoever translated it in the first place, and especially to to Frank, without whom I could have never survived my learning-to-subtitle adventure.
The original translation, which is the only English translation of Io trovo vergnoso I could find, had several minor errors which I fixed, including entire omitted paragraphs (all in the second video), so this may be the first time you silly Anglophones get to read the whole thing. Youre welcome.
Video originally ripped from http://www.youtube.com/user/DANIELApu... and subtitled by yours truly."
"Yours truly" being the much missed Jdamn, who used to help out a lot here at Kitman TV before she went on to other probably more noble tasks :-)
pssstt!... Orianas Fallaci´s classic The Force of Reason is available as pdf here. (hat tip Al Salibiyya)
Great efforts by Jdamn!
Description from Jdamn´s youtube channel - also the central intelligence agency of the KitmanTV Digest
Oriana Fallaci's seminal speech about European anti-semitism and the unholy alliance between the left and the Islamonazis.
"Special thanks to DANIELApuntoEbasta, who uploaded the original video, to whoever translated it in the first place, and especially to to Frank, without whom I could have never survived my learning-to-subtitle adventure.
The original translation, which is the only English translation of Io trovo vergnoso I could find, had several minor errors which I fixed, including entire omitted paragraphs (all in the second video), so this may be the first time you silly Anglophones get to read the whole thing. Youre welcome.
Video originally ripped from http://www.youtube.com/user/DANIELApu... and subtitled by yours truly."
In memory of Oriana Fallaci from eric hanson on Vimeo.
Here is a marvellous 20 minute interview with Oriana Fallaci from a Charlie Rose show aired shortly after her death on the september 15. 2006. It contain many wonderful highlights from her career and earlier conversations with Charlie Rose.
Below are the well chosen words of Robert Spencer, posted on Jihad Watch in her honor
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013111.php
Oriana Fallaci has died
By Robert Spencer
She was one of the most fearless and courageous defenders Western civilization had in these latter days, and the West rewarded her by hounding, persecuting and vilifying her.
Such is the state of the society and culture she loved and tried to save from itself.
Many times in her last months, after she did me the honor of calling me her friend, I thought to myself, What can I do for Oriana? Of course, the only answer was to do exactly what I am doing here at this site, and in my books, and in traveling around the country speaking, trying to alert people to the reality and magnitude of the global jihad.
I invite you, then, on this day of sadness and loss, to pay tribute to Oriana. There is no way we can make up for what we have lost in her. But the best way we can pay tribute to Oriana is by becoming Oriana. Let there be a hundred new Orianas today, a thousand new passionate and articulate and absolutely unbowed defenders of Western culture and civilization, with a fine contempt for all the many weapons of physical and psychological intimidation that the jihadists and their non-Muslim allies and tools in the Western media and government establishments use to try to silence and discredit us.
Buy her books. Give them to your friends and coworkers. Explain to them why she said -- as is quoted in the obituary linked above -- that "Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam." Explain to them why that matters for so much that they hold dear. Enlist them also in the anti-jihad resistance.
And when we prevail, we will be able to memorialize her fittingly, as a light that shone in our darkest days.
May her memory be eternal.